Kendrys Morales

The All-Star Game will have a Kansas City flavor, just not as much as it appeared last month. And the hometown Reds can celebrate a starter, too, despite Cincinnati's sorry season. Houston second baseman Jose Altuve passed Kansas City's Omar Infante in the final days of voting, leaving four Royals as starters for the All-Star Game. Cincinnati's Todd Frazier leapfrogged St. Louis third baseman Matt Carpenter and will be in the NL starting lineup for the July 14 game at Great American Ball Park, according to final results announced Sunday. AL champion Kansas City will be represented in the starting lineup by outfielders Lorenzo Cain and Alex Gordon, catcher Salvador...

Houston second baseman Jose Altuve passed Kansas City's Omar Infante in the final days of voting, leaving four Royals as starters for the All-Star Game.
Todd Frazier of the host Cincinnati Reds leapfrogged St. Louis' Matt Carpenter and will be in the...

There's still a way to go before All-Star voting ends at midnight EDT on July 2, but if the current results hold, we're going to see seven Royals in the American League's starting lineup.
The only non-Royals position players would be Astros second...

The White Sox and Royals had a heated opening series in Kansas City, Mo., earlier this month, but the intensity skyrocketed when a benches-clearing brawl resulted in five ejections Thursday night at U.S. Cellular Field.
In the seventh inning of the Sox's...

The summary
Five players were ejected Thursday night at U.S. Cellular Field in the White Sox's 3-2, 13-inning loss to the Royals that was marred by a bench-clearing brawl. Sox pitchers Chris Sale and Jeff Samardzija and the Royals' Yordano Ventura,...

The summaryWhite Sox left-hander John Danks gave up four earned runs on seven hits in 52/3 innings Thursday as the Royals swept the Sox with a 4-1 victory at Kauffman Stadium. Danks, who entered the game 7-0 overall against the Royals, gave up a...

The Angels’ 2014 season — and Don Baylor’s tenure as the team’s hitting coach — got off to a rocky and bizarre start Monday night when Baylor fractured his right femur while catching the ceremonial first pitch from Vladimir Guerrero and had to be carried...

Pretty ordinary as a relief pitcher, Jerry DiPoto is a natural as a general manager. Serving as an interim GM for the Diamondbacks in 2010, DiPoto flipped the switch on the rebuilding that led to an unexpected division title last season, adding Daniel...

Last week's ranking in parentheses, statistics are through Friday's games:
1. ST. LOUIS: The Cardinals didn't make any huge deadline deals. The Astros must have changed their passwords. (1)
2. KANSAS CITY: Raise your hand if you had Kendrys Morales...

TORONTO Kansas City clung to a one-run lead when the bottom of Saturday's ninth inning started, and manager Ned Yost counted up the batters due up before Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson. The number was four, four batters before Donaldson, a one-man...

After a big win over the Blue Jays, it was slow jam time in the Kansas City Royals clubhouse. Seated around a table in the middle of the room, Kendrys Morales and Danny Duffy gave a spirited sing-along to Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You."...

TORONTO The ending felt inevitable and it looked painful. The crowd at Rogers Centre built itself into a fever pitch in the bottom of the 11th inning as Royals reliever Franklin Morales faced Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson. When Donaldson...

TORONTO As the baseball took flight for the second deck of Rogers Centre's left field, Danny Duffy waved his hands at his sides. It was a universal gesture for exasperation, body language conveying a message felt through the Royals dugout: Again? ...

CLEVELAND Inside the visiting manager's office at Progressive Field, Kansas City manager Ned Yost pondered the larger meaning of his team's recent acquisition of former Reds ace Johnny Cueto. The move was unprecedented in the era of David Glass's...

The Dodgers are chasing a starting pitcher, or two. The Angels covet a left fielder. Both teams would like to add a relief pitcher.
The trade season has gotten underway without them. On Sunday, the Kansas City Royals got pitcher Johnny Cueto, three...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Astros ace Dallas Keuchel vexed the Royals for eighth shutout innings during a June 30 showdown at Minute Maid Park in Houston. That domination didn't make the 750-mile trek to Kansas City, where the Royals pounced on Keuchel...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Royals didn't have a walk-off win for the first three months of the season, but the boys in blue have made a habit of winning at the wire in July. Alcides Escobar didn't exactly knock the cover off the ball, but he knocked a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. So that's what a pitching acquisition for a postseason contender can produce. Scott Kazmir, the season's first major rent-a-pitcher transaction, made the buyer look smart on Friday. He befuddled the Royals for seven innings and...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The situation suggested caution: Three balls and no strikes, two outs, Kansas City striving to increase a one-run lead over Pittsburgh. But the pitch demanded punishment: A waist-high, 92-mph fastball, the sort of medium-temperature...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Pirates needed some good news. They were swept by the Milwaukee Brewers this past weekend and lost starting shortstop Jordy Mercer for six weeks with a left knee sprain, joining third baseman Josh Harrison on the disabled...